Wagga Wagga City

Industries are classified according to an industry coding system. The 2006 Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) is the lastest standard and was used to code the 2006 and 2011 Census industry data. This standard includes more industry divisions than previous standards and better reflects the structure of the Australian economy and its emerging industries.

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing

The Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Division includes units mainly engaged in growing crops, raising animals, growing and harvesting timber, and harvesting fish and other animals from farms or their natural habitats. The division makes a distinction between two basic activities: production and support services to production. Included as production activities are horticulture, livestock production, aquaculture, forestry and logging, and fishing, hunting and trapping.

The term 'agriculture' is used broadly to refer to both the growing and cultivation of horticultural and other crops (excluding forestry), and the controlled breeding, raising or farming of animals (excluding aquaculture).

Aquacultural activities include the controlled breeding, raising or farming of fish, molluscs and crustaceans.

Forestry and logging activities include growing, maintaining and harvesting forests, as well as gathering forest products.

Fishing, hunting and trapping includes gathering or catching marine life such as fish or shellfish, or other animals, from their uncontrolled natural environments in water or on land.

Also included in the division are units engaged in providing support services to the units engaged in production activities.

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing includes the following groups and sub-categories:

Agriculture

Nursery and Floriculture Production

Mushroom and Vegetable Growing

Fruit and Tree Nut Growing

Sheep, Beef Cattle and Grain Farming

Other Crop Growing

Dairy Cattle Farming

Poultry Farming

Deer Farming

Other Livestock Farming

Aquaculture

Forestry and Logging

Fishing, Hunting and Trapping

Fishing

Hunting and Trapping

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Support Services

Forestry Support Services

Agriculture and Fishing Support Services

Mining

The Mining Division includes units that mainly extract naturally occurring mineral solids, such as coal and ores; liquid minerals, such as crude petroleum; and gases, such as natural gas. The term mining is used in the broad sense to include underground or open cut mining; dredging; quarrying; well operations or evaporation pans; recovery from ore dumps or tailings as well as beneficiation activities (i.e. preparing, including crushing, screening, washing and flotation) and other preparation work customarily performed at the mine site, or as a part of mining activity.

The Mining Division distinguishes two basic activities: mine operation and mining support activities.

Mine operation includes units operating mines, quarries, or oil and gas wells on their own account, or for others on a contract or fee basis, as well as mining sites under development.

Mining support activities include units that perform mining services on a contract or fee basis, and exploration (except geophysical surveying).

Units in the Mining Division are grouped and classified according to the natural resource mined or to be mined. Industries include units that extract natural resources, and/or those that beneficiate the mineral mined. Beneficiation is the process whereby the extracted material is reduced to particles that can be separated into mineral and waste, the former suitable for further processing or direct use. The operations that take place in beneficiation are primarily mechanical, such as grinding, washing, magnetic separation, and centrifugal separation. In contrast, manufacturing operations primarily use chemical and electro-chemical processes, such as electrolysis and distillation.

Mining includes the following groups and sub-categories:

Coal Mining

Oil and Gas Extraction

Metal Ore Mining

Non-Metallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying

Construction Material Mining

Other Non-Metallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying

Exploration and Other Mining Support Services

Exploration

Other Mining Support Services

Manufacturing

The Manufacturing Division includes units mainly engaged in the physical or chemical transformation of materials, substances or components into new products (except agriculture and construction).

Units in the Manufacturing Division are often described as plants, factories or mills and characteristically use power-driven machines and other materials-handling equipment. However, units that transform materials, substances or components into new products by hand, or in the unit's home, are also included. Activities undertaken by units incidental to their manufacturing activity, such as selling directly to the consumer products manufactured on the same premises from which they are sold, such as bakeries and custom tailors, are also included in the division. If, in addition to self-produced products, other products that are not manufactured by the same unit are also sold, the rules for the treatment of mixed activities have to be applied and units classified according to their predominant activity.

Electricity, Gas, Water and Waste Services

The Electricity, Gas, Water and Waste Services Division comprises units engaged in the provision of electricity; gas through mains systems; water; drainage; and sewage services. This division also includes units mainly engaged in the collection, treatment and disposal of waste materials; remediation of contaminated materials (including land); and materials recovery activities.

Electricity supply activities include the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity and the on-selling of electricity via power distribution systems operated by others.

Gas supply includes the distribution of gas, such as natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas, through mains systems.

Water supply includes the storage, treatment and distribution of water; drainage services include the operation of drainage systems; and sewage services include the collection, treatment and disposal of waste through sewer systems and sewage treatment facilities.

Electricity, Gas, Water and Waste Services includes the following groups and sub-categories:

Electricity Supply

Electricity Generation

Electricity Transmission

Electricity Distribution

On Selling Electricity and Electricity Market Operation

Gas Supply

Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage Services

Waste Collection, Treatment and Disposal Services

Waste Collection Services

Construction

The Construction Division includes units mainly engaged in the construction of buildings and other structures, additions, alterations, reconstruction, installation, and maintenance and repairs of buildings and other structures.

Units engaged in demolition or wrecking of buildings and other structures, and clearing of building sites are included in Division E Construction. It also includes units engaged in blasting, test drilling, landfill, levelling, earthmoving, excavating, land drainage and other land preparation.

Construction includes the following groups and sub-categories:

Building Construction

Residential Building Construction

Non-Residential Building Construction

Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction

Construction Services

Land Development and Site Preparation Services

Building Structure Services

Building Installation Services

Building Completion Services

Other Construction Services

Wholesale Trade

The Wholesale Trade Division includes units mainly engaged in the purchase and onselling, the commission-based buying, and the commission-based selling of goods, without significant transformation, to businesses. Units are classified to the Wholesale Trade Division in the first instance if they buy goods and then onsell them (including on a commission basis) to businesses.

Wholesalers' premises are usually a warehouse or office with little or no display of their goods, large storage facilities, and are not generally located or designed to attract a high proportion of walk-in customers. Wholesaling is often characterised by high value and/or bulk volume transactions, and customers are generally reached through trade-specific contacts.

The Wholesale Trade Division distinguishes two types of wholesalers:

merchant wholesalers who take title to the goods they sell, including import/export merchants; and

units whose main activity is the commission-based buying and/or the commission-based selling of goods, acting as wholesale agents or brokers, or business to business electronic markets, both of whom arrange the sale of goods on behalf of others for a commission or fee without taking title to the goods.

A unit which sells to both businesses and the general public will be classified to the Wholesale Trade Division if it operates from premises such as warehouses or offices with little or no display of goods, has large storage facilities, and is not generally located or designed to attract a high proportion of walk-in customers

For units that have goods manufactured for them on commission and then sell those goods, the following treatment guidelines are to be followed:

units that own the material inputs and own the final outputs, but have the production done by others will be included in the Manufacturing Division;

units that do not own the material inputs but own the final outputs and have the production done by others will not be included in the Manufacturing Division (these may be included in Wholesale Trade or other divisions); and

units that do not own the material inputs, do not own the final outputs but undertake the production for others will be included in the Manufacturing Division.

As a result, units that have goods manufactured for them on commission will be included in the Wholesale Trade Division where they do not own the material inputs to the manufacturing process, but take title to the outputs and sell them in the manner prescribed above for typical wholesaling units.

Wholesale Trade includes the following groups and sub-categories:

Basic Material Wholesaling

Agricultural Product Wholesaling

Mineral, Metal and Chemical Wholesaling

Timber and Hardware Goods Wholesaling

Machinery and Equipment Wholesaling

Specialised Industrial Machinery and Equipment Wholesaling

Other Machinery and Equipment Wholesaling

Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts Wholesaling

Grocery, Liquor and Tobacco Product Wholesaling

Other Goods Wholesaling

Textile, Clothing and Footwear Wholesaling

Pharmaceutical and Toiletry Goods Wholesaling

Furniture, Floor Covering and Other Goods Wholesaling

Commission-Based Wholesaling

Retail Trade

The Retail Trade Division includes units mainly engaged in the purchase and onselling, the commission-based buying, and the commission-based selling of goods, without significant transformation, to the general public. The Retail Trade Division also includes units that purchase and onsell goods to the general public using non-traditional means, including the internet. Units are classified to the Retail Trade Division in the first instance if they buy goods and then onsell them (including on a commission basis) to the general public.

Retail units generally operate from premises located and designed to attract a high volume of walk-in customers, have an extensive display of goods, and/or use mass media advertising designed to attract customers. The display and advertising of goods may be physical or electronic.

Physical display and advertising includes shops, printed catalogues, billboards and print advertisements. Electronic display and advertising includes catalogues, internet websites, television and radio advertisements and infomercials. While non-store retailers, by definition, do not posses the physical characteristics of traditional retail units with a physical shop-front location, these units share the requisite function of the purchasing and onselling of goods to the general public, and are therefore included in this division. A unit which sells to both businesses and the general public will be classified to the Retail Trade Division if it operates from shop-front premises, arranges and displays stock to attract a high proportion of walk-in customers and utilises mass media advertising to attract customers.

Retail Trade includes the following groups and sub-categories:

Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts Retailing

Motor Vehicle Retailing

Motor Vehicle Parts and Tyre Retailing

Fuel Retailing

Food Retailing

Supermarket and Grocery Stores

Specialised Food Retailing

Other Store-Based Retailing

Furniture, Floor Coverings, Houseware and Textile Goods Retailing

Electrical and Electronic Goods Retailing

Hardware, Building and Garden Supplies Retailing

Recreational Goods Retailing

Clothing, Footwear and Personal Accessory Retailing

Department Stores

Pharmaceutical and Other Store-Based Retailing

Non-Store Retailing and Retail Commission-Based Buying and/or Selling

Non-Store Retailing

Retail Commission-Based Buying and/or Selling

Accommodation and Food Services

The Accommodation and Food Services Division includes units mainly engaged in providing short-term accommodation for visitors. Also included are units mainly engaged in providing food and beverage services, such as the preparation and serving of meals and the serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption by customers, both on and off-site.

Accommodation and Food Services includes the following groups and sub-categories:

Accommodation

Food and Beverage Services

Cafes, Restaurants and Takeaway Food Services

Pubs, Taverns and Bars

Clubs (Hospitality)

Transport, Postal and Warehousing

The Transport, Postal and Warehousing Division includes units mainly engaged in providing transportation of passengers and freight by road, rail, water or air. Other transportation activities such as postal services, pipeline transport and scenic and sightseeing transport are included in this division.

Units mainly engaged in providing goods warehousing and storage activities are also included.

The division also includes units mainly engaged in providing support services for the transportation of passengers and freight. These activities include stevedoring services, harbour services, navigation services, airport operations and customs agency services.

Transport, Postal and Warehousing includes the following groups and sub-categories:

Information Media and Telecommunications

creating, enhancing and storing information products in media that allows for their dissemination;

transmitting information products using analogue and digital signals (via electronic, wireless, optical and other means); and

providing transmission services and/or operating the infrastructure to enable the transmission and storage of information and information products.

Information products are defined as those which are not necessarily tangible, and, unlike traditional goods, are not associated with a particular form. The value of the information products is embedded in their content rather than in the format in which they are distributed. For example, a movie can be screened at a cinema, telecast on television or copied to video for sale or rental. The division includes some activities that primarily create, enhance and disseminate information products, subject to copyright.

It is the intangible nature of the information products which determines their unique dissemination process, which may include via a broadcast, electronic means, or physical form. They do not usually require direct contact between the supplier/producer and the consumer, which distinguishes them from distribution activities included in the Wholesale Trade and Retail Trade Divisions.

providing a range of creative artistic activities such as the creation of an artistic original (e.g. a painting), or the provision of a live musical performance by a group or artist (Arts and Recreation Services Division); and

units undertaking a range of activities such as directing, acting, writing and performing (Arts and Recreation Services Division).

Information Media and Telecommunications includes the following groups and sub-categories:

Financial and Insurance Services

The Financial and Insurance Services Division includes units mainly engaged in financial transactions involving the creation, liquidation, or change in ownership of financial assets, and/or in facilitating financial transactions.

The range of activities include raising funds by taking deposits and/or issuing securities and, in the process, incurring liabilities; units investing their own funds in a range of financial assets; pooling risk by underwriting insurance and annuities; separately constituted funds engaged in the provision of retirement incomes; and specialised services facilitating or supporting financial intermediation, insurance and employee benefit programs.

Also included in this division are central banking, monetary control and the regulation of financial activities.

Financial and Insurance Services includes the following groups and sub-categories:

Finance

Central Banking

Depository Financial Intermediation

Non-Depository Financing

Financial Asset Investing

Insurance and Superannuation Funds

Life Insurance

Health and General Insurance

Superannuation Funds

Auxiliary Finance and Insurance Services

Auxiliary Finance and Investment Services

Auxiliary Insurance Services

Rental, Hiring and Real Estate Services

The Rental, Hiring and Real Estate Services Division includes units mainly engaged in renting, hiring, or otherwise allowing the use of tangible or intangible assets (except copyrights), and units providing related services.

The assets may be tangible, as in the case of real estate and equipment, or intangible, as in the case with patents and trademarks.

The division also includes units engaged in providing real estate services such as selling, renting and/or buying real estate for others, managing real estate for others and appraising real estate.

Rental, Hiring and Real Estate Services includes the following groups and sub-categories:

Rental and Hiring Services (except Real Estate)

Motor Vehicle and Transport Equipment Rental and Hiring

Farm Animal and Bloodstock Leasing

Other Goods and Equipment Rental and Hiring

Non-Financial Intangible Assets (Except Copyrights) Leasing

Property Operators and Real Estate Services

Property Operators

Real Estate Services

Professional, Scientific and Technical Services

The Professional, Scientific and Technical Services Division includes units mainly engaged in providing professional, scientific and technical services. Units engaged in providing these services apply common processes where labour inputs are integral to the production or service delivery. Units in this division specialise and sell their expertise. In most cases, equipment and materials are not major inputs. The activities undertaken generally require a high level of expertise and training and formal (usually tertiary level) qualifications.

Administrative and Support Services

The Administrative and Support Services Division includes units mainly engaged in performing routine support activities for the day-to-day operations of other businesses or organisations.

Units providing administrative support services are mainly engaged in activities such as office administration; hiring and placing personnel for others; preparing documents; taking orders for clients by telephone; providing credit reporting or collecting services; and arranging travel and travel tours.

Units providing other types of support services are mainly engaged in activities such as building and other cleaning services; pest control services; gardening services; and packaging products for others.

The activities undertaken by units in this division are often integral parts of the activities of units found in all sectors of the economy. Recent trends have moved more towards the outsourcing of such non-core activities. The units classified in this division specialise in one or more of these activities and can, therefore, provide services to a variety of clients.

Administrative and Support Services includes the following groups and sub-categories:

Administrative Services

Employment Services

Travel Agency and Tour Arrangement Services

Other Administrative Services

Building Cleaning, Pest Control and Other Support Services

Building Cleaning, Pest Control and Gardening Services

Public Administration and Safety

The Public Administration and Safety Division includes units mainly engaged in Central, State or Local Government legislative, executive and judicial activities; in providing physical, social, economic and general public safety and security services; and in enforcing regulations. Also included are units of military defence, government representation and international government organisations.

Central, State or Local Government legislative, executive and judicial activities include the setting of policy; the oversight of government programs; collecting revenue to fund government programs; creating statute laws and by-laws; creating case law through the judicial processes of civil, criminal and other courts; and distributing public funds.

The provision of physical, social, economic and general public safety and security services, and enforcing regulations, includes units that provide police services; investigation and security services; fire protection and other emergency services; correctional and detention services; regulatory services; border control; and other public order and safety services.

Also included are units of military defence, government representation and international government organisations.

Government ownership is not a criterion for classification to this industry division. Government units producing 'private sector like' goods and services are classified to the same industry as private sector units engaged in similar activities. Private sector units engaged in public administration or military defence are classified to the Public Administration and Safety Division. Units that engage in a combination of public administration and service delivery activities are to be classified to this division.

Public Administration and Safety includes the following groups and sub-categories:

Public Administration

Central Government Administration

State Government Administration

Local Government Administration

Justice

Government Representation

Defence

Public Order, Safety and Regulatory Services

Public Order and Safety Services

Regulatory Services

Education and Training

The Education and Training Division includes units mainly engaged in the provision and support of education and training, except those engaged in the training of animals e.g. dog obedience training, horse training.

Education may be provided in a range of settings, such as educational institutions, the workplace, or the home. Generally, instruction is delivered through face-to-face interaction between teachers/instructors and students, although other means and mediums of delivery, such as by correspondence, radio, television or the internet, may be used.

Education and training is delivered by teachers or instructors who explain, tell or demonstrate a wide variety of subjects. The commonality of processes involved, such as the labour inputs of teachers and instructors, and their subject matter knowledge and teaching expertise, uniquely distinguishes this industry from other industries.

Education support services include a range of support services which assist in the provision of education, such as curriculum setting and examination marking.

Education and Training includes the following groups and sub-categories:

Preschool and School Education

Preschool Education

School Education

Tertiary Education

Adult, Community and Other Education

Educational Support Services

Health Care and Social Assistance

The Health Care and Social Assistance Division includes units mainly engaged in providing human health care and social assistance. Units engaged in providing these services apply common processes, where the labour inputs of practitioners with the requisite expertise and qualifications are integral to production or service delivery.

Health Care and Social Assistance includes the following groups and sub-categories:

Hospitals

Medical and Other Health Care Services

Medical Services

Pathology and Diagnostic Imaging Services

Allied Health Services

Other Health Care Services

Residential Care Services

Social Assistance Services

Child Care Services

Other Social Assistance Services

Arts and Recreation Services

The Arts and Recreation Services Division includes units mainly engaged in the preservation and exhibition of objects and sites of historical, cultural or educational interest; the production of original artistic works and/or participation in live performances, events, or exhibits intended for public viewing; and the operation of facilities or the provision of services that enable patrons to participate in sporting or recreational activities, or to pursue amusement interests.

This division excludes units that are involved in the production, or production and distribution of motion pictures, videos, television programs or television and video commercials. These units are included in the Information Media and Telecommunications Division.

Arts and Recreation Services includes the following groups and sub-categories:

Heritage Activities

Museum Operation

Parks and Gardens Operations

Creative and Performing Arts Activities

Sports and Recreation Activities

Sports and Physical Recreation Activities

Horse and Dog Racing Activities

Amusement and Other Recreation Activities

Gambling Activities

Other Services

The Other Services Division includes a broad range of personal services; religious, civic, professional and other interest group services; selected repair and maintenance activities; and private households employing staff. Units in this division are mainly engaged in providing a range of personal care services, such as hair, beauty and diet and weight management services; providing death care services; promoting or administering religious events or activities; or promoting and defending the interests of their members.

Also included are units mainly engaged in repairing and/or maintaining equipment and machinery (except ships, boats, aircraft, or railway rolling stock) or other items (except buildings); as well as units of private households that engage in employing workers on or about the premises in activities primarily concerned with the operation of households.

The Other Services Division excludes units mainly engaged in providing buildings or dwellings repair and maintenance services (included in the Construction or Administrative and Support Services Divisions as appropriate), and units mainly engaged in providing repair and maintenance services of books, ships, boats, aircraft or railway rolling stock (included in the Manufacturing Division).

Other Services includes the following groups and sub-categories:

Repair and Maintenance

Automotive Repair and Maintenance

Machinery and Equipment Repair and Maintenance

Other Repair and Maintenance

Personal and Other Services

Personal Care Services

Funeral, Crematorium and Cemetery Services

Other Personal Services

Religious Services

Civic, Professional and Other Interest Group Services

Private Households Employing Staff and Undifferentiated Goods- and Service-Producing Activities of Households for Own Use

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